Fedora 20 no /var/log/messages file

Chris Kottaridis chriskot at quietwind.net
Tue Apr 29 19:59:40 UTC 2014


I am migrating from a Fedora 19 to a Fedora 20 host. I used the Fedora 
20 live disk to install on the new machine. I have most things 
transferred over and working, but curiously I don't have any messages or 
mail log files in /var/log as I do in the F19 host:

# ls /var/log
anaconda  dnf.rpm.log  mail           speech-dispatcher   Xorg.0.log
audit     gdm          ntpstats       sssd Xorg.0.log.old
boot.log  glusterfs    pluto          tallylog            Xorg.1.log
btmp      grubby       ppp            vmware-installer    yum.log
chrony    httpd        README         vnetlib
cups      journal      samba          wpa_supplicant.log
dnf.log   lastlog      sa-update.log  wtmp

compared to the F19 /var/log:

# ls /var/log
amanda               gdm                messages-20140420  spooler
anaconda             glusterfs          messages-20140427 spooler-20140406
audit                grubby             ntpstats spooler-20140413
boot.log             httpd              pluto spooler-20140420
btmp                 journal            pm-powersave.log spooler-20140427
btmp-20140402        lastlog            ppp                sssd
chrony               libvirt            prelink            tallylog
cluster              mail               samba              vbox
cron                 maillog            sa-update.log vmware-installer
cron-20140406        maillog-20140406   secure             vnetlib
cron-20140413        maillog-20140413   secure-20140406    wtmp
cron-20140420        maillog-20140420   secure-20140413 Xorg.0.log
cron-20140427        maillog-20140427   secure-20140420 Xorg.0.log.old
cups                 messages           secure-20140427    yum.log
dracut.log           messages-20140406  speech-dispatcher yum.log-20140217
dracut.log-20130822  messages-20140413  spice-vdagent.log

Notice no messages or maillog and some others that actually contain the 
log messages in F20 that do exist in F19.

What am I missing on the F20 machine ?

Thanks
Chris Kottaridis


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